Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: August 26, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, August 26 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families
has changes.
Snow Goose (Morgan)
Wood Duck (Jackson, Otero)
Bufflehead (Boulder, Larimer)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (*Grand)
Common Merganer (Washington)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Mineral)
Dusky Grouse (Larimer, Mineral)
White-winged Dove (Prowers)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Otero, Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Bent, Huerfano, Otero)
Chimney Swift (Denver, *Jefferson, Prowers)
Black Rail (Bent, Pueblo)
Sandhill Crane (El Paso, Weld)
Snowy Plover (*Alamosa)
Semipalmated Plover (Washington)
Upland Sandpiper (El Paso)
Long-billed Curlew (Crowley)
Ruddy Turnstone (Sedgwick)
Stilt Sandpiper (Crowley, El Paso, Washington)
Sanderling (Washington)
Dunlin (Kiowa)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Jefferson, Kiowa, Washington)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Crowley, Sedgwick, Washington)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Bent)
Wilson’s Snipe (Crowley, Otero)
Solitary Sandpiper (*Alamosa, El Paso, Kiowa, *Montrose, Otero, Pueblo,
Sedgwick, Washington)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Crowley, Otero, Washington)
Caspian Tern (*Larimer)
Black Tern (Bent, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Washington)
Common Tern (*Alamosa)
Common Loon (Kiowa, Ouray)
Little Blue Heron (Weld)
Cattle Egret (Denver)
Green Heron (Otero)
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (Prowers)
Mississippi Kite (*El Paso, Prowers)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Kiowa, Larimer, Otero, *Prowers, Pueblo,
Washington)
Acorn Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Huerfano, Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (El Paso, Pueblo)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison, Larimer, Mineral)
CRESTED CARACARA (*Adams, *Denver, Douglas)
Merlin (Larimer,*Moffat, Pueblo)
Least Flycatcher (Adams, Washington)
Gray Flycatcher (*Montrose)
Eastern Phoebe (*Denver, Fremont, Jefferson)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Crowley, Kiowa)
Cassin’s Kingbird (El Paso, Fremont, Pueblo)
Bell’s Vireo (Pueblo)
Gray Vireo (Montrose)
Cassin’s Vireo (Kiowa)
Red-eyed Vireo (*Moffat)
Chichuahuan Raven (Custer)
Bewick’s Wren (El Paso, Fremont, Logan, Pueblo)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso, Fremont, Otero)
Red Crossbill (El Paso, Pueblo)
Pine Siskin (Otero)
Evening Grosbeak (Kiowa, Otero)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso, Kiowa, Pueblo, Saguache)
Golden-winged Warbler (Routt)
Nashville Warbler (Boulder)
Grace’s Warbler (Pueblo)
Cassin’s Sparrow (El Paso)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Eagle, El Paso, Logan, Pueblo, Washington)
Brewer’s Sparrow (El Paso, Huerfano, Otero, Pueblo, Washington)
Lark Bunting (El Paso, Jackson, Weld)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Fremont)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Northern Cardinal (*Prowers)
Indigo Bunting (Logan)
Dickcissel (Boulder, El Paso, Kiowa, Otero)
Bobolink (Boulder)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On August 22 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith Mc Burney banded
Least Flycatcher.
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On August 26 at Blanca Wetlands, John Rawinski reported Snowy Plover
best seen at North Mallard area.
BENT COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Adobe Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake), Nick Komar et al
reported juv Short-billed Dowitcher, 6 Black Terns, and 4 Greater
Roadrunners.
---On August 22 at Fort Lyon CR 16 marshes, Loch Kilpatrick heard 2 Black
Rail.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Teller Farm and Lakes, Rebecca Laroche reported f-type
Bufflehead.
---On August 21 at Warembourg OP in Louisville, Jack and Ryan Bushong
reported Nashville Warbler.
CROWLEY COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Lake Meredith, Jim Rowroth et al reported Lesser
Black-backed Gull.
---On August 18 at Lake Meredith Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Ryan Adams et al
reported 8 Stilt Sandpipers, 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers. On August 19 at
Lake Meredith, Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Jay Withgott reported Long-billed
Curlew, 12 Stilt Sandpipers, 13 Semipalmated sandpipers and Wilson’s
Snipe. On August 29 at Lake Meredith Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Dick Porter and
Joshua Smith reported 38 Stilit Sandppers, 12 Semipalmated Sandpipers,
Great Crested Flycatcher and Lesser Black-backed Gull.
CUSTER COUNTY:
---On August 20 in Wetmore area, Drew Beamer et al reported Chichuahuan
Raven.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Denver City Park, Tony Leukering reported Cattle Egret
on island in Ferril Lake and Chimney Swift.
---On August 26 at Westerly Creek Park, Jason Bidgood reported Eastern
Phoebe.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Highline Canal, Lowell Baumunk reported CRESTED CARACARA
in dead cottonwood. It took off and headed towards Chatfield SP; Peggy
Wait also reported CRESTED CARACARA at Highline Canal in Sunshine Acres
area – see her photos on CoBirds.
----On August 24 at Reuter-Hess Reservoir, Tim Ryan reported CRESTED
CARACARA circling above the dam. Reuter-Hess has restricted access.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Venetucci Farm, Van Truan reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 22 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown Banded 2 ad Clay-colored
Sparrows and Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On August 17 at Adams Open Space, Cathy Bondy reported 3 Mississippi
Kites.
---On August 18 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Nick Komar et al reported
Mississippi Kite. On August 19 at Fountain Creek RP, Nick Komar el al
reported Mississippi Kite and type 2 Red Crossbill. On August 21 at
Fountain RP, Gary Koehn reported Mississippi Kite and Mary Cornier, Sharon
Cornier-Aagard, and Jeanelle Richardson reported 5 Mississippi Kites. On
August 24 at Fountain Creek RP, David Tonnessen and Joel Adams reported 4
Mississippi Kites and Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 16 on S Peyton Hwy, Don Marsh reported 2 Red-headed
Woodpeckers and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On August 16 on BIrdsall Road, Gloria Nikolai reported 2 Curve-billed
Thrashers and Mississippi Kite.
---On August 17 at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area), Drew Beamer reported
Curve-billed Thrasher and 7 Cassin’s Sparrows; Diego Blanco reported 6
Curve-billed Thrashers, 2 Brewer’s Sparrows and 4 Cassin’s Sparrows. On
August 17 at Chico Basin Ranch, Cynthia Hudson et al reported Ladder-backed
Woodpecker, Curve-billed Thrasher, 7 Solitary Sandpipers, and 10 Cassin’s
Sparrows. On August 18 at Chico Basin Ranch, Dick Porter et al reported 5
Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Curve-billed Thrashers, 3 Brewer’s Sparrows. On
August 18 at Chico Basin Ranch, John Drummond et al reported Bewick’s Wren
and Ladder-backed Woodpecker. On August 19 at Chico Basin Ranch, Jim
Rowoth el at reported 5 Curve-billed Thrashers, 9 Cassin’s Sparrows, 3
Clay-colored Sparrows, and 20 Lark Buntings. On August 20 at Chico Basin
Ranch, John Drummond et al reported 6 Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Ladder-backed
Woodpeckers, 3 Curve-billed Thrashers, 4 Cassin’s Sparrows, 8 Brewer’s
Sparrows, Bewick’s Wren, Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 19 on Santa Fe Ave in Fountain, Nick Komar et al reported 4
Mississippi Kites.
---On August 19 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Alan Ketcham reported 2 Stilt
Sandpipers, Black Tern, 2 Cassin’s Kingbirds, Dickcissel. On August 22 at
Ramah Reservoir SWA, Alan Versaw reported 2 Stilt Sandpipers and 3
Dickcissel.
---On August 20 at Intersection of Squirrel Creek Road and s Peyton Hwy,
Robb Hinds reported Upland Sandpiper.
---On August 20 at intersection of S Peyton Hwy and Apelt Ranch Road, Ed
Pandolfino reported 2 ad Sandhill Cranes, Ladder-backed Woodpecker,
Curve-billed Thrasher, and Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On August 22 on Santa FE Regional Trail Pine Creek, David Tonnessen
reported 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, Brewer’s Sparrow and calling flyover Red
Crossbill (type 2 or Ponderosa)
---On August 24 on Dearing Rd and Squirrel Creek Rd, Mel and Jeanne Goff
reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker.
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Brush Hollow Reservoir, Drew Beamer et al reported
Eastern Phoebe, 2 Cassin’s Kingbirds, Bewick’s Wren, 4 Curve-billed
Thrashers, Grasshopper Sparrow.
GRAND COUNTY:
---On August 24and 25 at Windy Gap Reservoir, Doug Gochfeld reported f-type
Barrow’s Goldeneye.
HUERFANO COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Lathrop SP, Sharon Cormier-Aagard reported heard Greater
Roadrunner, f Williamson’s Sapsucker, 3 Brewer’s Sparrows.
JACKSON COUNTY:
---On August 19 on CR 34 near Walden, Bob Friedrichs reported f – type Lark
Bunting.
---On August 23 at Arapaho NWR Auto Loop, Walter Wehtje reported 3 Lark
Bunting.
---On August 23 at Hwy 14 in Walden, Walter Wehtje reported 2 Wood Ducks S
of bridge.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Chatfield SP S Platte River Delta, Frank Farrell
reported Pectoral Sandpiper.
---On August 21 and 22 at Deer Creek at W Buckhorn Road, David Suddjian
reported Eastern Phoebe.
---On August 22 at Deer Creek near South Valley Park parking lot, David
Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.
---On August 25 at Crown Hill Regional Park, Steven Snyder reported Chimney
Swift.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Kiowa Creek at CR 40, Steve Mlodinow reported Great
Crested Flycatcher and 2 Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 20 at Upper queens/Neeskah Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported
6 Solitary Sandpipers, Caspian Tern, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 3 Great
Crested Flycatcher, Cassin’s Vireo.
---On August 20 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Upland
Sandpiper, Dunlin, Pectoral Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, 65 Black Tern,
Common Tern, 16 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 6 Northern Waterthrush, Dickcissel.
---On August 22 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Glenn Walbek and Mart Peterson
reported calling Pine Siskin.
---On August 24 at Kiowa Creek at CR 40, Nick Moore reported Great Crested
Flycatcher.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Topminnow NA, Sandy Arnesen reported Bufflehead.
---On August 18 at Emmaline Lake train in spruce forest above Pingree Park,
Libby Edwards reported 6 American Three-toed Woodpeckers
---On August 19 at Estes Park, Debra Corpora reported Red-headed Woodpecker.
---On August 20 at Running Deer and Cottonwood Hollow NA, Robert Beauchamp
reported Prairie Merlin.
---On August 23 in Rocky Mountain NP Fern Lake Trail, Kay Hawklee and Lis
Grubbs reported 2 Dusky Grouse.
---On August 25 at CSU Environmental Learning Center, Jean Olson reported
Caspian Tern.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On August 23 at hedgerow on CR 8 between CR 65 and CR 67, Steve Larson
reported Bewick’s Wren, 4 Clay-colored Sparrows and Indigo Bunting.
MINERAL COUNTY:
---On August 22 on Fisher Mountain, John Rawinski reported 5 White-tailed
Ptarmigan, American Three-toed Woodpecker, and Dusky Grouse.
MOFFAT COUNTY:
---On August 25 at Loudy-Simpson Nature Trail in Craig, Jan Leonard and
Tresa Moulton heard 2 Sandhill Cranes and reported Merlin (Prairie) and
continuing Red-eyed Vireo first found by Leonard On 8/23.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On August 21 on Ketchup trail near Bedrock, George Steel reported Gray
Vireo.
---On August 25 at Airport Lake, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported
Solitary Sandpiper and Gray Vireo.
MORGAN COUNTY:
---On August 24 on Hwy 71 south of CR Z, Jay Wilbur reported Snow Goose
flying along Hwy.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Cheraw Lake, Jim Rowoth and Kurt Mize reported Wilson’s
Snipe and Black Tern.
On August 22 at Cheraw Lake, Mark Holmgren reported Wood Duck, 9 Black
Terns, and Dickcissel.
---On August 18 at Higbee Valley Road, Doug Faulker et al reported 4
Greater Roadrunners, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 2 Curve-billed Thrashers, 2
Brewer’s Sparrows, Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
---On August 19 at Holbrook Reservoir, Bernard Morris reported Green Heron
and Lesser Black-backed Gull. On August 18 at Holbrook reservoir, David
Tonnessen reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 13
Black Terns, Red-headed Woodpecker, flyover calling Evening Grosbeak.
---On August 19 at Rocky Ford SWA Ryans Ponds, David Tonnessen reported
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 3 Red-headed Woodpeckers and flyover calling Pine
Siskin.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On August 19 at Willow Creek Park, Bernard Morris reported
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE circling overhead with kettle of Mississippi Kites and
2 Red-headed Woodpeckers. On August 20 at Willow Creek Park, Nick Komar et
al reported 100 Mississippi Kites, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, 2 Chimney Swifts,
and Red-headed Woodpecker. On August 21 at Willow Creek Park, Brandon
Percival reported 10 Mississippi Kites, SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, 8 White-winged
Doves, 20 Chimney Swifts, and 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers. On August 22 at
Willow Creek Park swimming pool parking lot, Loch Kilpatrick reported
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, 52 Mississippi Kites, and White-winged Dove; Jesse and
Renee Casias and Susan Meiler reported SWALLOW-TAILED KITE and Mississippi
Kite. On August 22 at Willow Creek Park, Glenn Walbek reported
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE and 45 Mississippi Kites. On August 23 at 3rd and
Walnut in Lamar, John Drummond reported SWALLOW-TAILED KITE, 8 Mississippi
Kites and 2 Chimney Swifts.
On August 24 at Willow Creek Park, Eric DeFonso reported SWALLOW-TAILED
KITE. Dale and Joel Adams followed the Kettles on Memorial Drive and saw
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE with about 70 Mississippi Kites.
---On August 23 at Parkview Elementary School in Lamar, Dave Leatherman
reported Red-headed Woodpecker.
---On August 23 at Lamar Community College Woods, Dave Leatherman reported
two families of Northern Cardinals
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Pueblo Mountain Park, Ryan Adams reported Acorn
Woodpecker, 2 Williamson’s Sapsuckers and 3 Grace’s Warblers. On August 18
at Pueblo Mountain Park, Nathan Pieplow et al reported 5 Williamson’s
Sapsuckers, Merlin, 3 Grace’s Warblers. On August 19 at Pueblo Mt Park,
Mark Holmgren et al reported 2 Williamson’s Sapsucker, 2 Lewis’s
Woodpeckers and Grace’s Warbler. On August 20 at Pueblo Mountain Park,
Jaeanelle Richardson, Mary cornier, and Sharon Cornier-Aagard reported 2
Grace’s Warblers.
---On August 18 at Nepesta Road Marsh, Scott Somershoe reported hearing
Black Rail. On August 20 at Nepestra Road Marsh, Nick Komar et al reported
2 Black Rail, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 4 Red-headed Woodpecker, and Northern
Waterthrush.
---On August 24 at Chico Basin Ranch, David Tonnessen reported 32 Solitary
Sandpipers, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Cassin’s Kingbird, Bell’s Vireo,
Bewick’s Wren, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, 2 Brewer’s Sparrows, and 2 Red
Crossbills.
ROUTT COUNTY:
---On August 19 along Yampa Core Trail in Steamboat Springs, Machael San
Miguel reported ad m Golden-winged Warbler about 100-200 yards upstream
from where trail corsses Trafalager Dr just behind “Flour Mill” camp. On
August 22 along Yampa Core Trail on Hitchens Island, Michael San Miguel
Reported Golden-winged Warbler.
SAGUACHE COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Russell Lakes SWA, Riley Morris reported Northern
Waterthrush
SEDGWICK COUNTY:
---On August 22 at Jumbo Reservoir, Steve Larson reported Ruddy Turnstone,
Semipalmated Sandpiper, and Solitary Sandpiper.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Prewitt Reservoir, Jack and Ryan Bushong reported Common
Merganser, Semipalmated Plover, 30 Stilt Sandpipers, 7 Semipalmated
Sandpipers, 6 Solitary Sandpipers, and juv Red-headed Woodpecker. On
August 22 at Prewitt Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Semipalmated
Plovers, 205 Stilt Sandpipers, Sanderling Pectoral Sandpiper, 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 15 Black Tern, Red-headed
Woodpecker, Least Flycatcher, Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 Brewer’s Sparrows.
On August 23 at Prewitt Reservoir, Norm Lewis reported Common Merganser, 20
Stilt Sandpiper, 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Red-headed
Woodpecker.
WELD COUNTY:
---On August 19 at Norma’s Grove, Gene Rutherford reported 5 Brewer’s
Sparrows, 12 f-type Lark Buntings.
---On August 18 at Firestone Gravel Pits (view from road) Carl Starace
reported 2 juv Little Blue Heron.
---On August 22 at Pawnee NG Murphy’s Pasture Auto stops 2 and 3, Nan
Perkins reported 8 Chesnut-collared Longspurs, 4 McCown’s Longspurs, 5
Brewer’s Sparrows and BRONZED COWBIRD.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, August 26 will be to Guanella Pass led by
Wendy Wibbens and Sue Summers (wibbwj AT aol.com; 303-330-1175). This
trip is full.
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, August 26 will be to Cobb Lake, Timnath
Reservoir and Lory SP led by Francis Commercon (siskinbyderailleur AT
gmail.com; 303-470-9130) Meet at 0700 in the SW corner of the Moby Arena
Parking Lot on the CSU campus, Fort Collins. Will try to carpool to
minimize the number of cars. From Denver, take I-25 north to Prospect
Road, exit 268. Drive west on Prospect until you turn north on Shields
St., Then drive to Elizabeth St where you will turn east directly into the
Moby Arena Parking Lot. State Parks pass required. Will begin at Cobb
Lake SWA then transition to Timnath Reservoir, have lunch at Lory SP. Trip
will conclude mid-afternoon. Bring plenty of water, snacks, sunscreen, and
lunch. Bring good walking shoes and long pants. Register online or
contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday August 27 will be to Prewitt and Jackson
Reservoirs led by Joey Kellner (vireo1 AT comcast.net; 303-978-1748). Meet
at 0530 at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 6060 N Broadway to carpool. Exit
I-25 at 58th Ave, go west 2 blocks to Broadway, then north 2 blocks to
parking lot on right. State Parks pass and and Jumbo Res/Prewitt Res
access permit required (Habitat permit or Fishing License).
This is an all-day trip so bring snacks, lunch, plenty of water,
sunscreen, and bug spray, Long pants are recommended. Register online or
contact leader.
For more information on the field trips go to dfobirds.org.
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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